Ruby on Rails 5 New Features

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5/4/2016

Learn what is new in Ruby on Rails 5, the first major release of Rails in three years. Rails 5 is faster, uses less memory, and offers many new features and improvements. Learn to use ActionCable to access WebSockets and to design real-time features like chat, games, and notifications. Discover how to configure Rails to serve as a JSON backend, how to use the new version of Turbolinks to optimize page loading, and how to render templates independently of controllers. Learn about the many new, time-saving methods and other improvements throughout Rails 5. Watch this course to find out how key changes will affect your code. Expert Kevin Skoglund examines all of the major new features, as well as the deprecations and deletions in the framework.

Topics include:

Using ActionCable to work with WebSockets

Rendering templates independently of controllers

Creating JSON API applications

Using Turbolinks for faster page loads

Working with new ActiveRecord features

Leveraging improvements to date and time, parameters, and more

Understanding deprecations and deletions

Skill Level Intermediate

1h 21m

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(xylophone music)- [Voiceover] Welcome to Ruby on Rails 5 New Features.My name is Kevin Skoglund.In this course, you will cover the new features,improvements and other important changesto Ruby on Rails version 5.We will learn how to use the most important featuresof Rails 5, including action cable,action controller renderer, turbolinks,the active records, attributes API,and how to use Rails exclusively as a Json API.Then we will discuss the many other smaller changesin improvements such as the Rails command router,new date and time methods,secure tokens, and changes to parameters.

Finally, we'll survey the features that are being deprecatedor completely removed.This is an important topic if you have an existing projectthat uses any of these features.Let's get started learning about the new featuresin Ruby on Rails 5.